Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOLLY MOOR, by GEORGE FAREWELL First Line: Tully, the queen of beauty's boast Last Line: When she is up to ceres gone. Subject(s): African Americans; Courts & Courtiers; Negroes; American Blacks; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens | ||||||||
TULLY, the queen of beauty's boast, Through all America the toast, Does, that her face more eyes may catch, Reform it with a negro-patch. Venus for ever does delight In thickest shade, and ebon night. Does not Tom Serjeant try to make His person passant dressed in black? Observe the coal of purest jet The fiercest flame does still beget. As the most cloudy mysteries The mussulmans devoutest prize, So smartest beaux and wits adore The gloomy grace of Molly Moor. The proudest snowy forms at last Must in a sable pall be dressed: E'en Dolly Dowglass' self must go Down to the negro-shades below; Into the pitchy kingdom, where This raven lass shall queen appear; And sit on Proserpina's throne, When she is up to Ceres gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA by EMMA LAZARUS TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS AN ADIEU TO MY LANDLADY by GEORGE FAREWELL |
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